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...Jones, who has held more New Deal jobs at one time than anyone else,* has also acquired an army of powerful friends, in & out of Congress. Last week Jesse's friends rallied round: businessmen befriended by RFC, fellow Southern Conservatives Kenneth McKellar, Walter George, and even old Cordell Hull, who was not too ill for a little political maneuvering. The President got word that it would not be "practical" politics to chop off Jesse's white-thatched head...
...summer of 1943 Jones held, simultaneously, 18 jobs. On the total number of jobs held during twelve New Deal years, he trails. Thus far, Harold Ickes has held 141 New Deal posts; Henry Wallace, 127; Henry Morgenthau Jr., 122; Cordell Hull, 86; Frances Perkins, 85; Jones...
...Thanks, Bob." Day after the Senate confirmation, into Cordell Hull's old black leather office crowded tittering Government clerks, a jostling mass of hardelbowed photographers, the Stettinius family-wife Virginia Wallace Stettinius, sons Edward R. III, 16, Wallace and Joseph, twins, 11-the protocol officer in striped pants, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson in black, General George Marshall in olive drab, and Ed Stettinius in a blue business suit. The Secretary of State's desk, stacked high for twelve years with pamphlets, cables and memos, was clean...
...Then the new Secretary characteristically thrust out a friendly big hand to the Justice: "Thanks, Bob!" He turned about and kissed his wife (too quickly for the photographers; he had to do it again for them). Soon after, he held a spot press conference, where he paid Cordell Hull what must have been his 200th tribute. He told the correspondents, in effect, that from now on, boys, whatever you want is yours. This was welcome news; State Department newsmen are often treated as if they carried concealed weapons...
...even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this was the fault of feuding Cordell Hull, who was not keen on reorganization, anyway. Stettinius is proud of his attempt to redecorate the department's archaic architectural monstrosity. He created a pretty press room, increased the wattage of lights and removed the desks of messengers from the halls. But Cordell Hull balked at repainting doors in pastel...